By Nikolai Podvoisky, 6 November 1927. Nikolai Podvoisky
was Chairman of the Military Revolutionary Committee of the
Petrograd Soviet. He was a leading organiser of the October
Rising, which was a coup de theatre as well as a coup
d’etat. This is an introduction and reproduction of
his article “Lenin—Organiser of the Victorious
October Uprising”, which was first published in the
Soviet newspaper Krasnaya Gazeta, November 6,
1927, for the tenth anniversary of the revolution.

A-Infos News Service, 18 March 2001. 80 years ago, the
workers' movement and rebellion at Kronstadt, near
Petrograd in Russia, was bloodily suppressed by the
state-capitalist regime of Lenin and Trotsky. [Article
illustrates a class perspective hostile to the working
class.]

By Stephen Millies, Workers World, 23 June
2003. the Aurora delivered a mighty blow for human
freedom. The shots fired from this Russian vessel by sailors
on Nov. 7, 1917, guaranteed the victory of the workers'
insurrection that was taking over St. Petersburg. The
incident in the context of the October Revolution and global
working-class struggle.

By Leslie Feinberg, Lesbian, bay, bi and trans pride
series, Part 10, Workers World, 5 August
2004. The Bolshevik Party did not merely scrap
anti-homosexual tsarist laws. It felt it was necessary to
tear down the walls that divided homosexuals—also
known in Russia as “people of the
moonlight”—from the rest of society.

Irish Republican Socialist Party, 5 November
2004. November 6, 1917 was the date of the Bolshevik
Revolution. The Irish Republican Socialist Party recognizes
this event as a watershed in human history and therefore
pays tribute to the memory of the “ten days that shook
the world”.